The long dark tea time of the soul

Tragedy of the Tribal’s of Bastar.
By
J.P.Rao

The people of Bastar are resisting the atrocities of Maoists voluntarily.
Government of Chhattisghar.

I would not like to leave my village and its forest, neither I would like to join Salva Judum. The police burnt houses in my village and hung us upside down from the trees. [...]

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Last week we saw the tussle between anbumani ramadoss, the son-of-a-politician health minister of India and Dr. P Venugopal, one of the best heart surgeons of India. Dr. Venugopal had conducted the first heart transplant in India in 1994, is famous for his research in stem cells, and currently the director of AIIMS. Ramadoss in [...]

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After 20 years of nothingness, something is happenning in Dantewada, the southernmost district in Chhattisgarh, over the past one year. This is demonstrated by the remarkable increase in the number of search results of the term Dantewada on google. We are told by the state and its organs - the politicians, the police, the officials [...]

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Now that the heat on reservations has sufficiently cooled down, and everybody has said what he or she had to say, it is time to critically analyze all the arguments by all the participants in the debate, summarize them, point out my reservations with both kinds of people, and in short antagonize everyone.
The student and [...]

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As Mr. Katz in that magical Czech movie, Obchod na korze (The shop on main street) says, ‘When the law goes after the innocent, that’s the end. The end of the rule of law. The end of innocence”. Although he was talking about the nazi SS action in the small Slovak town, a very similar [...]

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रङ्ग दे बसन्ती के पहले िदन का पहला शो देखने के बाद, मेरे और सोनाली की सोच िबल्कुल िवपिरत थी, हमेशा की तरह। जहाॅ सोनाली िफल्म के अन्त से अत्यन्त प्रभािवत थी, वही मै सोच रहा था की िफल्म मेॅ कुछ युवको द्वारा, केवल एक नेता को मार देने से िकसी भी समस्या का समाधान [...]

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Thanks to Abhishek for suggesting this title. We were discussing the google maps showing pak-occupied-kashmir as Pak occupied Kashmir. The slight variation on the Indian map aside, Abhishek’s contention was that how does it matter whether it is Pakistan occupied Kashmir or Kashmir occupied Pakistan? Interesting thought. But that comment made me think of something [...]

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It is a top-down-bottom-up, rob-poor-to-make-rich-richer implementation of socialism in India. It benefits the least who are the intended beneficiaries, at least, in the slogans and empowers the rich and the well-to-do to become even more richer and weller-to-do.
Last year, the government announced a hike in EPF interest rate. Many of the people, I know, are [...]

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There are an uncountable number of problems, associated with our country and our society. In fact, every civil society has its share of problems which affects a not infitesimally small percentage of its population, and in many cases society as a whole. The idea of utopia, or ramrajya, is so hypothetical, that it is impossible [...]

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They might put me in jail for this. This will be regarded as a comtempt of court. There is something basically wrong with our judiciary. The sheer volume of cases rotting in our courts tell this. Why, on an average it takes 2 years to depose even the simplest of cases?
And then they find time [...]

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